Word: chins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chinese Shadows is a brilliant, uncompromising account of political distortion and sycophancy in contemporary China. Simon Leys, the pseudonym for Pierre Ryckmans, a distinguished Belgian-born Sinologist, lucidly argues that the Chin of Mao, so far from being a revolutionary paradise of egalitarianism, is a monstrous tyranny ruled over by a new privileged class of bureaucrats and generals...
...Universities have been running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry a chin-up slogan: "Maintain self-respect and self-strengthening: stay calm in the face of adversity...
...storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
Mellowest Tones. Federal authorities think the victims may include Eli Zeccardi, 67, underboss of the Genovese clan, and his top associate, Dominick Dequatro, 55; both have disappeared in the past month. Officials say the disappearances may be connected with the rise in the family of Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, 49. An ex-boxer, Gigante won lasting notoriety as the gunman who unsuccessfully tried to liquidate Mafia "Prime Minister" Frank Costello in 1957. The investigators doubt that Gigante is acting...
...universal self-fulfillment. All lips shall remain pursed, if you please. All humor will be in the service of social realism, and all laughter, determined by economic dictum: the will of the people is to harness laughter in order to further the will of the people. Put on your chin-straps, please. Begin laughing...